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Matthew 12:4
how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the show-bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the show-bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
MATTHEW 12:4 e;fagon {C} Although e;fagon is supported by only a B and 481, as the non-parallel reading it is more likely to have been altered to e;fagen than vice versa. The text implies that David,...
Verse Matthew 12:4. Matthew 12:3, Matthew 12:3....
HOW HE ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD - That is, the “tabernacle,” the temple not being then built. HAVE YE NOT READ IN THE LAW? - In the law, or in the books of Moses. PROFANE THE SABBATH - He referr...
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
SABBATH OBSERVANCE (Mark 2:23 *, Luke 6:1). The incident shows that the disciples were learning their Master's teaching. Deuteronomy 23:25 allowed the practice, but the Rabbinical objection to it on t...
HOW HE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF GOD. The account will be found in 1 Samuel 21:1. AND DID EAT THE SHEW-BREAD. This consisted of twelve loaves placed fresh every Sabbath day on the table in the sanctuary...
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, ...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. THE HOUSE OF GOD: i.e. the tabernacle. THE SHEW BREAD. See Exodus 25:30; Leviticus 24:5. WHICH WAS... BUT ONLY, &C. See Leviticus 24:9....
Matthew 12:1-13. The Observance of the Sabbath 1. The disciples pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath. 2. A man with a withered hand cured on the Sabbath. St Mark 2:23-28; Mark 3:1-5; St...
_the shewbread_ Literally, BREAD OF SETTING FORTH, i. e. bread that was set forth in the sanctuary. It was also called "continual bread" as being set forth perpetually before the Lord, hence the Hebre...
ὃ for οὕς. 4. ΤΟῪΣ ἌΡΤΟΥΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΠΡΟΘΈΣΕΩΣ. Literally, ‘loaves of the setting forth,’ i.e. the bread that was set forth in the sanctuary. It was also called ‘continual bread’ as being set forth perpetua...
THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH...
Ver 1. At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto...
_THE PHARISEES REJECTED THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:1-21_ : The Bible is plain in showing that it is wrong to fail to be as strict as God intents. But, the Bible also shows that it is wrong to be stricter t...
ΕΊΣΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) заходить, входить, ΠΡΟΘΈΣΕΩΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΠΡΌΘΕΣΙΣ (G4286) представление, предложение, "хлебы предложения" (BAGD). Предложение Господу представлял о...
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, &C.— Concerning this transaction see the note on Mark 2:25. By the _house of God_ is not meant the _temple,_ for it was not then built; but the court of the tabernacle, which wa...
SECTION 26 JESUS ANSWERS CHARGES OF SABBATH BREAKING (Parallels: Mark 2:23 to Mark 3:6; Luke 6:1-11) TEXT: 12:1-14 I. SUSPICION 1. At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grain-f...
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? HOW HE ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF...
27 See Joh_3:35; Joh_17:2. 28 It is this God-consciousness, this recognition of His hand in all things, and more especially in that which is opposed to His apparent will, which gives His slaves heart'...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
HOW HE ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD. — Strictly speaking, it was in the tabernacle at Nob, where Ahimelech (possibly assisted by Abiathar, Mark 2:26) was ministering as high priest (1 Samuel 21:6). T...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
εἰσῆλθεν, ἔφαγον, _he_ entered, _they_ ate. Mark has ἔφαγεν. Weiss explains the harsh change of subject by combination of apostolic source with Mark. The two verbs point to two offences against the la...
_Christ's defence_. It is twofold. (1) He shields disciples by examples: David and the priests; to both the faultfinders would defer (Matthew 12:3-5); (2) He indicates the principles involved in the e...
_Plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath_ (Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5). Sabbath observance was one of the leading causes of conflict between Jesus and the guardians of religion and morality. This is the fi...
THE RIGHT USE OF THE SABBATH Matthew 12:1-14 The Pharisees had introduced a large number of minute and absurd restrictions on Sabbath observance; so our Lord set Himself to recover the day of rest fo...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the (a) shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? (a) The Hebrews call it "brea...
How he entered, &c. The house of God was then at Nobe. In St. Mark, the high priest is called Abiathar. See Chap. ii. 26. To this difficulty some answer, that the father and son bore these two names,...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS RETURNS TO GALILEE Matthew 12:1-18; Mark 2:23-28, and Luke 6:1-5. We find that our Lord spent but two weeks at Jerusalem during this tour, preaching and working miracles all the time...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
HOW HE ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD,.... Not the temple, which was not then built; but the tabernacle, which was then at Nob, the city of the priests, and which probably adjoined to Abimelech's house...
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? Ver. 4. _And did eat the shewbrea...
_The Pharisees said, Thy disciples do what is not lawful_ The law of Moses so expressly allowed the plucking ears of corn as one passed through a field, that, malignant as they were, they pretended no...
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
1-8 Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn: the law of God allowed it, Deuteronomy 23:25. This was slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were conte...
Ver. 3,4. Mark and Luke add little, only Mark specifies the time, _in the days of Abiathar the high priest, _ and saith, _when he had need, and was an hungred._ We have the history, 1 SAMUEL 21:1. Dav...
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THE INCIDENT IN THE GRAINFIELDS (12:1-8). The first incident arises when Jesus and His disciples are walking through some grainfields. Being hungry they pluck some of the grain, and eat it. This is t...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE PHARISEES ABOUT THE SABBATH. THE SON OF MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH (12:1-16). In the last passage Matthew has depicted words of Jesus concerning the heavy burden of the Law and th...
‘But he said to them, “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him, how he entered into the house of God, and they ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for...
Matthew 12:4. THE HOUSE OF GOD. The tabernacle at Nob. THE SHEW-BREAD. Twelve loaves were placed in rows upon a table in the holy place, as a symbol of the communion of God with men. They were renewe...
CHRONOLOGY. Mark and Luke place the events of this section just before the _choice of the Twelve_, which occurred during our Lord's retirement. The season of the year may have been April, at which tim...
SHEWBREAD (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 25:30). _...
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD The tent (Holy place Hebrews 9:2) at Nob. [the temple had not yet been built at that time.] The bread offered to God: "the Bread of the Presence" (Hebrews 9:2). Twelve lo...
_Behold Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day._ 1. It is no new thing to see men who are otherwise learned, and are in account for their holiness in the church, to be a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:4 ATE THE BREAD OF THE PRESENCE. Twelve loaves of bread were baked and placed in the tabernacle each Sabbath as an offering. The bread was to be eaten by THE PRIESTS ...
THE DISCIPLES PICK WHEAT ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW 12:1-8; MARK 2:23-28; LUKE 6:1-5; MATTHEW 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day throug
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:1. PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN.—See Deuteronomy 23:25. Matthew 12:3. WHAT DAVID DID.—David’s action was not an apparent contravention of the Sabbath-law, but an apparent contra...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
Exodus 25:30; Exodus 29:32; Exodus 29:33; Leviticus 24:5; Leviticus
He entered into the house of God — Into the tabernacle. The temple was not yet built. The show bread — So they called the bread which the priest, who served that week, put every Sabbath day on the gol...
Did Jesus’ disciples break the Jewish Sabbath law? PROBLEM: Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17). Yet Jesu...